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Mary McKnight's avatar

My wandering heart needed this, both from you Suleika and your experiences and from Jedidiah and his. (The trailer of American Symphony has me spellbound) And now...me. I traveled back to the house where we lived for the year my dad was in Vietnam. I hadn't been on that land since 1970. I knew the roundabout where I crashed my sister's new bike, our house had a new number on it, and there was a sidewalk now making distance between the front yards and the parking areas out front. Each house now had a fence, eliminating the possibility of our wild hide and seek games of our time And then, torrential rain began to fall. I wept. I mean like crouching on the ground, sobbing, rocking, unable to speak, type of crying. They were the tears I had held in as instructed to do by my mother and father in 1969 right before Dad left for Vietnam. I carry this year with me in my cells still.

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Meredith DiMola's avatar

I will count the moments until this is released. The beauty of the trailer is just what I need on this beautiful Sunday morning.

I often wonder what life would have looked like if I had understood that the contrasts of life - occurring at the same time - is simply life. That fighting to get the bad to go away is not the answer - and in fact is impossible. The simple and basic truth that life is both and all emotions and feelings at the same time - is the secret sauce. Congratulations to giving birth to this creation celebrating that truth and I am sure -so much more !

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